Re: [Evolution] Bugday

[Ryan P Skadberg <skadz mindstorm com>]

In #bugs or in #evobugs as it has been in the past??

Skadz

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 13:44, Gerardo Marin wrote:
> Bugday strikes back!
>
> Evolution bug days will be starting back up this Thursday, 06/06 in
> irc.gnome.org #bugs. For those of you who are new, and don't know quite
> what bug day is, or how you can help out, read on...
>
> Evolution has been and will always be based upon community
> participation, be either by coding, patching, submitting ideas or bug
> reports.
> Evolution has grown up into a great product, with lots of features and
> functionality.  But also the bug database has grown.  Too much, and near
> the limits of manageability.
> Let's say: we have now around 22,000 reports, and of those around 2,300
> are still alive.  Keeping a fast pace of 5 minutes only to triage them
> that would mean 191 hours (almost a full month!) just for a proper
> triaging & reassigning.  And among them there are some that definitely
> take longer than 5 minutes.
> Add about 30 new reports every day, that have to be triaged... well, you
> get the picture.
> There are a lot of other tasks necessary for a healthy growth of
> Evolution: Testing of new features in HEAD versions, searching for
> memory leaks, closing reports when something is reported solved... a
> whole bunch of activities that sometimes are slightly overlooked because
> of the amount of bugs to be tracked.
> We are calling the community- especially those who aren't coding wizards
> but are looking to help some other way- to help us by looking into our
> bugzilla and helping us to clean up the bug database to help developers
> to look into what is really important and not waste time into duplicate
> reports, very old code, unusable stack traces or plain crackpot feature
> requests.
> You don't need to be a 311337 coder to do this.  If you are pretty sure
> you have a good dose of common sense then you really don't need a deep
> programming language skills to help.  Just a few spare minutes and good
> will are sufficient.
> If you are interested in participating,  we'll give you a few bug
> reports to check on and, in that way, in just a few minutes a day, you
> can help Evo get better by identifying bugs that are still there and
> cleaning up the database to make it more usable to developers.
> If you're interested, please drop by #bugs in irc.gnome.org between 9AM
> and 9PM EST [1400 and 0200GMT] on June 6th and help make Evo even
> better, by enforcing its quality, gaining knowledge of Evolution and
> giving developers more time to code.
>
>
> Thank you all!
>
>
> Gerardo Marin
> Ximian Evolution Bugmaster.
>
>
>
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